Senior Financial Analyst, North America VAS Revenue

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

The North America Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as a business partner for North America Group Executives and provides finance support for a variety of underlying Regional business functions. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across all functions/product lines and plays a key role in providing financial planning, month-end reporting, and decision support analytics to business leaders.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support FP&A for Value Added Services (“VAS”) Revenue within the North America P&L.  The person will analyze actuals, build budgets, maintain forecasts, and serve as a strategic partner for North America VAS with a view toward helping accelerate growth on this key area of expansion for the company.  Role will work closely with product managers, global & corporate finance teams, and North America Sales teams to understand product performance, ongoing risks, opportunities, and areas of investment to help accelerate growth.   

Essential Functions:

• Support North America VAS Revenue forecasting, reporting, and analytics

  • Lead consolidation of monthly actuals, ongoing forecasts, budgets, and long-term growth plans

  • Analyze result: identify and interpret key variances, trends, and insights, present key findings to management

  • Lead close, budgeting and forecasting processes by developing timelines and templates, communicating guidance on key deliverables, and building senior executive presentations that bring overall themes and insights together

  • Combine observed patterns and trends to creates accurate forecasts: be able to triangulate and exercise judgement

  • Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems: run data queries, develop financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives

• Create long term views for growth based on business strategy and macro-economic data

  • Understand individual product offerings, market dynamics, and underlying drivers

  • Work with sales teams to understand pipelines for all Products: evaluate penetration, pricing, and opportunities for growth

  • Build business cases to support go-to-market strategies and new product launches

• Collaborate and coordinate with a broad base of stakeholders (i.e. Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategy, Controllership, etc.)

• Serve as a subject matter expert within FP&A, guide peers and provide ownership and/or support of strategic initiatives

• Support or lead wide variety of ad hoc requests and special projects  

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
• Able to rapidly establish a broad and deep understanding of the payments landscape
• Foundational understanding of multi-party economic model (issuers, acquirers, processors, interchange, merchants, cardholders, etc.) and performance measurement/reporting
• Enjoys an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and customer service-oriented
• Converts complex analyses into revealing business storylines
• High proficiency in Excel with demonstrated ability to improve processes via automation and end-to-end efficiencies. Additional experience with a complex financial system (e.g., Oracle) a plus
• Ability to effectively work independently and collaborate as part of a cross-functional, global